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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Quality Uncertainty"”.
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Essays on Operational Flexibilities in Production Planning under Supply and Quality Uncertainty
… to mitigate the negative effects of supply and quality uncertainty. Uncertainties in supply and quality are commonly experienced among agro-businesses, and in particular, in the wine industry. The goal of the dissertation is to provide prescriptive solutions in mitigating such risks from the …
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Sources of Quality Uncertainty in Laser Powder Bed Fusion Metal Additive Manufacturing
… uncertainties, where variations in build quality is present despite utilizing similar build processing parameters. First, this work reports the features and formation mechanisms of five unique types of spatter during the LPBF process by in-situ high-speed, high-energy x-ray imaging. The …
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Three Essays on Price Discovery, Stock Liquidity, and Crash Risk
… 1: This paper investigates whether market quality, uncertainty, investor sentiment and attention, and macroeconomic news affect bitcoin price discovery in spot and futures markets. Over the period December 2017 – March 2019, we find significant time variation in the contribution to price …
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Disintermediation and re-intermediation in the music business: the effect of multimedia technologies and E-commerce
… organisation and theories on "search costs" and "quality uncertainty" from the economics of information. Special mention is given to the literature on the music industry dealing with the production and commercialisation of music, the resulting and changing structure of the industry, as well as …
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The Effect of Uncertain End-of-Life Product Quality and Consumer Incentives on Partial Disassembly Sequencing in Value Recovery Operations
… problems; 1) modeling uncertain EoL product quality, quantity, and timing in regards to EoL product acquisition and disassembly sequencing and 2) designing EoL product acquisition schemes considering EoL product uncertainty. The main research objectives within these areas are; analyzing, …
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Investigation of Passengers’ Intentions to Use High-Speed Rail and Low-Cost Carriers in China
… trust, total travel time, price, service quality, access, and frequency were added to the HSR model. For LCCs, the TPB model was extended with the inclusion of price, service quality, uncertainty avoidance, access, frequency, and technology self-efficacy.</p> <p>This research used a survey …
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Analytical and computational methods for non-Gaussian reliability analysis of nonlinear systems operating in stochastic environments
… and design, and can be caused both by uncertainty in materials and construction, and by the inherently stochastic nature of random waves. Due to the dynamical nonlinearity of these systems, the statistical response is typically non-Gaussian with highly non-trivial distribution tails, …